Manufacturer's blues

2014-05-02T16:13:00

The state of technology sometimes gives me the blues. In 2014, I found myself installing a package called `dosfstools` to format my pendrive. That's because the car's radio wouldn't accept any device with a file system that's not fat32:

not a device

Of course possessing a file system of another kind makes the device "not a device". After a few seconds on the command line the problem went away:

$ sudo pacman -S dosfstools
$ sudo mkfs.vfat -n BILLY /dev/sdb1

but the sadness remained. At l(e)ast I can listen to some badvoltage while driving.

Oh yes, did I mention it doesn't accept any format except mp3? And how does it signal it? By not showing the files at all, of course.

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